Introduction

Jan-Philipp Kolb

07/17/2015

Migrant route to Germany

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Overview of maps

The road to Europe

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GDP per capita

GDP in German federal states

GDP in billion Euro

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Source: Wikipedia

Social index

Proportion of social benefits recipients in Berlin

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The spatial perspective…

Target / Motivation

The target is to visualize social aspects in maps.

More examples

A little quiz

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A little quiz

Black is walking (less than 7mph),

Red is bicycling or equivalent speed (less than 19mph),

Blue is motor vehicles on normal roads (less than 43mph);

Green is freeways or rapid transit.

World Map Of Touristyness

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Tracking Taxis Across Manhattan

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Spatial? - Motivation

Examples

Targets

I want to….

Targets

Every participant should present his/her own maps.

Personal information

University of Trier

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Univerity Lyon III

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Organisation Gesis

Five departments - Survey Design and Methodology

Gesis

GESIS is:

GESIS offers:

Tasks GESIS-Team Statistics:

Consulting and research on …

Your background?

Tools and services

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Why use R

R is the leading tool for statistics, data analysis, and machine learning. It is more than a statistical package; it’s a programming language, so you can create your own objects, functions, and packages.

Source: http://www.r-bloggers.com/why-use-r/

Why use R

A big number of (very specific) packages:

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Overview of available packages on CRAN

Why use R

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Why use R

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Why use R

R can be used as geographic information systems (GIS)

Why use R

Because it is possible to create nice graphics:

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Github page

https://github.com/Japhilko/GeoData

If you are interested in what is behind the scenes:

How to learn R

I will try to keep it simple and provide lots of resources.

Basic R

Download and install R

http://mirrors.softliste.de/cran/

Rstudio

Rstudio